Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

I have never been a huge Skype fan believing that people speak on phones rather than computers and that 5 billion is a much more interesting number than 28 million. I am though a fan of a new application called Viber which appears to be taking the world of telephony by storm. Friends who would be [...]

Will all the panic in the UK this week and Gordon Brown now wondering if his phone was “Hacked” I thought I would write a simple post on how to stop this “hacking”
Firstly none of this involves “hacking”, this is just a word concocted by journalists to make this story grow legs.
So how does it [...]

Unless you have been hiding under a rock all week you will no doubt have heard of Quora, if not, what’s Quora? Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.
Milo loves it and thinks “it will be the next twitter” and usually as my colleagues will tell [...]

Each year I begin to sweat around the 20th of December, my worry? how many of those insincere SMS’s am I going to have to reply to this month, you know the ones “A very Happy Christmas” to you and yours” , “All the best in 2011 to you and yours” I absolutely hate them, [...]

Its been a pretty incredible year here at MAXROAM. We expanded our team considerably, expanded our partners globally and had our first broken bone (sorry Jason, at least he got the Cubic cast)
The very kind guys at Nokia have give us the absolutely gorgeous Nokia C7 to give away to one “Friend”. How do you [...]

Eircom MusicHub allows you to stream for free around 5 million tracks if you’re an Eircom customer which as the moment I am not so hence a free account to test. I am a paying Spotify customer though and this is the closest thing to this I have tried. If you are an existing Eircom customer then [...]

The team at Swapkit have come up trumps to help me in this run of giveaways.
Swapkit is a really clever business backed by a few friends. I presume you all have seen the TV adverts where you are told to pop your valuable phone in the post, well that in my opinion is a game of chance. [...]

To celebrate our nice new Sony Ericsson X8 Xperia adverts on MAXROAM and on our other sites the guys at Sony Ericsson have given me one of their beautiful Xperia X8 handsets to give away
I have been using this most of this week and I think its one of the nicest Android installs that I [...]

Vodafone have very kindly given me one of the fantastic new Nokia N8 from their “Home Of The Smartphone Range”. This is an absolutely stunning handset so nice even the “dude” wants one.
So whats the deal?
This is for Irish entrants only.
Just tell me why you should have it ? thats it, simple isn’t it
I will [...]

Before Twitter there was Jaiku and thats where I started out.
It was founded by Jyri Engeström and was later acquired by Google (a lot of its features are in Google Buzz) , at the time it had quite a few problems and I decided to move over to this new start-up called Twitter.
I had already [...]